Child
Development Lead Poisoning, Mercury in fish, pesticides and
children, noise and reading, PCBs and endocrine disruptors in
development

Children & Pollution

How do pollutants affect children's behavior and psychological
functioning?
The book "Children and Pollution: Why Scientists Disagree"
(2009, Oxford University Press) is the only book that reviews the
scientific evidence about how pollution affects child development.
This book is a battle manual for the green movement. After reading
this book you will know how to see when a researcher's values and
biases are seriously influencing conclusions. The author also
explains how to protect your family and our planet from common
pollutants, an how to argue for more effective environmental
policies. Click here
or scroll down for more info, including links to websites on
children and pollution!

(available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble,
or your local bookseller, and as an e-book)
(click
here for the
independent bookseller's website)

The book reveals the scientific evidence about impact of common
pollutants on children's psychological development

How does pollution impact our daily quality of life? What are
the effects of pollution on children's development? Why do
industry and environmental experts disagree about what levels of
pollutants are safe? In this clearly written book, Moore traces
the debates around five key pollutants---lead, mercury, noise,
pesticides, and dioxins and PCBs---and provides an overview of
the history of each pollutant, basic research findings, and the
scientific and regulatory controversies surrounding it. Moore
focuses, in particular, on the impact of these pollutants on
children's psychological development --- their intellectual
functioning, behavior, and emotional states. Only by
understanding the impact of pollution can we prevent future
negative effects on quality of life and even pollution disasters
from occurring. This volume will be of great interest to
parents, child health care experts, public health officials,
regulators, and health and environmental advocates.

Offers insight into how industry and environmentalists have
come up with sharply different claims about what level of
pollution is safe.

Below are just a few links to
websites on children's environmental health issues. I have
organized the websites around the topics in my book. There are
also some other very useful websites listed in my book.
My book covers the controversies around the
pollutants in a way that helps the average citizen understand how
environmental decisions can be swayed by biased decision criteria.
We all have our own biases, and often our biases are based on our
values. It is important in a democratic society that we express
our views on "how much pollution is too much". For some people (or
industry representatives) it takes a "smoking gun" or a "body
count" in order to convince them that a pollutant affects children
negatively. For others, the cutoff for saying "that's too much
harm" is much lower. Where is your cutoff, and are you letting
your elected representatives know what you think?